仁王經疏 1.308

1.308

Commentary: Third, the unsurpassable spoken [teaching]. The text has three parts: 1. clarifying the emptiness of the text; 2. clarifying that both text and meaning are empty; 3. clarifying that both person and dharma are empty. This is the emptiness of the text. There are two aspects: 1. "Phrases are non-phrases" is the emptiness of the nature of phrases; the essence of all names and phrases originally lacks intrinsic nature. 2. "Not non-phrases" is that which is acquired through cultivation being neither existent nor nonexistent, dismissing the emptiness of existence and nonexistence. "Non-phrases" is obtained by nature, and "not non-phrases" is acquired through cultivation, dismissing nature.